Actor Waiver

COPYRIGHT WAIVER FORM  

Global Studious 

Date: 10/5/16 

Zombie by Miser 

[ROLE OF CONTRIBUTOR ON MUSIC VIDEO 

I agree to collaborate on this music video and to assign to Global Studious, with full title guarantee, the following:  

• all of my rights, title, interest and property in Zombie by Miser 

• the full and exclusive benefit of all the Intellectual Property Rights including all forms of protection and all rights, privileges and advantages appertaining thereto;  

• the right to recover and to bring proceedings to recover damages and/or to obtain other remedies in respect of infringement of the Intellectual Property Rights whether committed before or after the date of this Agreement.  

AND to hold the same unto Global Studious absolutely.  

Further, I hereby agree to waive all moral rights in the Intellectual Property Rights.  

The nature of the project and my role in it has been explained to me and I have agreed to collaborate on this project for no fee. 

I understand that this music video may be distributed by the producer in any medium in any part of the world.  

I shall, at the request of Global Studious, sign all instruments, applications or other documents and to do all such acts as shall be reasonably required by Global Studious to enable Global Studious or its nominee to enjoy the full and exclusive benefit of the Intellectual Property Rights and to fully and effectively vest the same in Global Studious including, where necessary, the registration of Global Studious's title in the Intellectual Property Rights in the appropriate intellectual property office at which the Intellectual Property Rights are registered by Global Studious.  

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This wavier form if directly aimed to the actors that are taking part in this music video. I am making this waiver form because it is very important reasons being that it is a legal document that is used to waiver a persons right to seek any damages from an organisation or from any other people.

Locations for music video

Curtis’s House

We have all discussed as a group that when the chorus plays, “In your head…dou, dou, dou”, the videos setting will be inside this house with a victim inside who has suffered against Domestic Violence. The victim will be sitting on the floor with his/her hands on their head while terrified. We’ve discussed this because in the lyrics the band sings the words “What’s in your head, in your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie?”, the word ‘Zombie’ can imply to the Abuser and the words ‘In your head’ can imply that the abuser is in the victim’s head, which is upsetting them. In addition, most domestic abuse takes place behind doors because it is hidden from the wider world. Therefore, this is a good location for our video. 

A Park in Tadworth

(note-this map is out of date)

Epsom Downs (Field)

The field is isolated, so this can be a good place for the victim to let all their frustrations out without fear of the abuser. 

Permission

This field is local and belongs to the Epsom council, so we would need permission from the council to be able to film in that area. We would also need need to be aware if there is a horse race playing at that pacific time of us filming (which we wouldn’t even be filming during anyway).

Health and Safety issues include: 

• Uneven ground which will make it harder to keep the tripod steady.
• There is a steep hill on the Downs, this means that we need to be careful with not only ourselves, but also the equipment that we will be using for our short film.
• We need to be careful to not film, or stand near/on the path as cars do drive on it at times.

Lyrical Connotations

“Another mother's breaking, Heart is taking over. And the violence causes silence, We must be mistaken.”

With these lyrics we have decided that the Downs will be the best location for this part of the song, the reason being is that the victim will be arriving to this location in solitude and the mother’s breaking line can be referred to coming here to get away from it all and the causes silence line would indicate her silence to the matter all alone with no one to help her.

Budget

As this is a public field, we will not need to pay for any permission, or to actually gain access to the field. The only thing we would need to pay for, but most likely would not need to use anyway, is transport to get there.

Step 7 and Step 8

The duration of the unsigned song that we have chosen called, 'Zombie by Miser', I found out that it lasts for three minutes and eighteen seconds. Every time the chorus plays, it lasts for 22 seconds. Since it is only 22 seconds and the chorus is four lines long, this is another reason why the chorus is fast-paced. I did some research on Google about the duration of music videos and I came across a website called WISTIA. On a page on WISTIA, it talks about "Does length matter? It does in video!" 
I then came across two sentences on the page, that I believe is very true. The sentences are "We've always touted the message "shorter videos are better". They tend to get straight to the point and hold attention better than a drawn-out message". Basically saying if the video takes a great amount of time until it's finished, then I would drag on the main point of the story or just the story itself. That way it will not engage the viewer or viewers viewing the video. When the duration is shorter in a music video, the audience will be engaged a lot more, because it gets straight point and not as much dragging.

At the very start of the song "Another head hangs lowly..." till the start of the chorus, "...In your head, in your head, they are crying" the song plays at a short pace and it will have shorter takes to go with that pace, to make it flow with the speed of the song. I know this because for example the first paragraph of the song, "Another heads hangs lowly...Who are we mistaken", it feels to me that this paragraph would not flow nicely if the song was playing with faster takes and when you would read through those lyrics and imagine that it has shorter takes, then it would flow nicely. The songs pace will then move faster every time when the chorus plays. Most of the words that are in the chorus is the word, "zombie" and the singer says zombie three times in a row twice in the chorus. So if you would to imagine the pace of the chorus in the song would be slow, then it would sound quite boring and will effect the whole song, but then if you would imagine the chorus to be at a faster pace with the singer singing the word "zombie", then it would sound really exciting for the audience. Also it would play with faster takes, because it is playing at a faster pace.

In a book that I have found on Google Books called 'Communications & Multimedia Technology', I have found this quote, 'As with music, different moods will require different paces'. This quote that I have found made me think, have I talked about this in Step 8? Which is about what is the pace of the song that we have chosen? It also made me fully aware that we need to think about the speed of our cuts in our music video when we are at a part of the song with a certain mood. So for example if the whole song had a sad mood to it, we need to make sure that the video we make for this song, is at a slow pace and that we don't use quick cuts for that certain mood.

Step 6: Narrative

In the unsigned song, 'Zombie by Miser', we as a group have discussed the Narrative in this song. We first discussed, what narrative could the song be? So I thought that this song was set in a city or a town and there are zombies trying to take over that city or town. But then in the songs lyrics it says, "With their tanks and their bombs, and their bombs and their guns." This most probably out of anything suggests that the army is in this narrative and they are annihilating the infected. We also thought that this could be a war, we got this idea from the bit in the lyrics, "It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen". In 1916 it was only two years away from the first world war, but maybe in 1916 it was getting to that point where the war was being decided. And also we know that this could be set in a war because of the lyrics again, "With their tanks and their bombs, and their bombs and their guns". So this song can be set in a zombie apocalypse, or a war.

In this song it does not follow Todorov's narrative theory where it starts at a Equilibrium, which is where in the story it is peaceful and then there is a Disequilibrium which destroys that peace. Which then after that, it ends with a New Equilibrium which is most probably a better Equilibrium than the other Equilibrium was at the start of the narrative. In this unsigned song it starts straight away as a Disequilibrium and nothing more. It then ends in the same Disequilibrium and there is no Equilibrium in the story of the song at all.

We have decided as a group, does this song follow a Linear narrative, or a Non-Linear narrative? All of us suggested that this song was a Non-Linear narrative, because it starts talking about a child is slowly taken and then a tiny bit further in, it talks about families, most probably flash-backing to the family. So the songs story does not follow in a straight line and that is also what a Linear narrative is, where everything in the story keeps going forward. However in this song it feels to us that it keeps flash-backing to bits, for example the army with their tanks and bombs, a child is slowly taken and about someones family.

Step 2: Why did we choose this song?

When I first heard this song, I thought that this song would be good to use for a music video that we can produce. As a group we all agreed that we didn't want an unsigned song that had a long opening. So we first decided what genre we should choose, we chose this by saying what are our favorite genres in music. We all had Rock as one of our favorite genres in music, so we decided Rock. After we decided what genre we were going to pick, we went on the website, 'http://www.unsigned.com/' and browsed through the Rock songs, To find the song that we all liked and that will be good for a music video that we can produce. When we were choosing a Rock song we made sure that the people singing in the song were clear to hear,we were doing this because some songs that we came across weren't as clear, for example the actual music was far more noisier than the singers singing, making us obliviously losing interest in the song. After looking through some unsigned Rock songs, we came across a song called, 'Zombie by Miser'. The opening in this song really gave an interest to us and as we were listening more, we all thought that this unsigned song was perfect to use for our music video.

Copyright issues: The song that we have chosen that was from a website was an unsigned song from an unsigned band. Therefore this song is copyright free and just to be courteous we have emailed the band just to see if we have full permission to use their song and make a music video out of it.

Practically speaking, we felt we could deliver a song such as this as we have four people in the group and they are a band made up of five people. Although we were one man down we still felt we could replicate a video for this size. So when we found out that their were five people in the band, we came to the conclusion that we would need another person for our music video. This would be if we wanted the band to be in the music video itself. This is still undecided.

Technically, there were decisions to be made in regards to choosing the rock genre. For example, typically the rock genre uses low key lighting which is readily available to us in this country- particularly at the time in which we will be filming.

Step 4: Summary of Our Song

This entire song is about an army fighting against zombies. The line, "And the violence caused such silence", in the lyrics most probably refers to zombies killing civilians and making the surroundings filled with only zombies and with no noise. The setting in this bit of the song, can be a village, or a city with zombies limping around in silent. Later into the song they sing about tanks, bombs and guns; out of anything they are singing about the army and the army eliminating the zombies.

Step 5: Mood Board

Mood Board